Search Engine Friendly URLs in Word Press
On a fresh installation, the urls (web addresses) created for your website by Word Press are rather, ..... "clunky" and don #39;t help you one bit with the optim...
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DOHA (Reuters) - Qatar's emir Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa al-Thani handed power on Tuesday to his son, Crown Prince Sheikh Tamim, taking the rare step for a Gulf Arab ruler of voluntarily ceding power to try to ensure a smooth succession.
But the 61-year-old emir made no immediate mention of the public face of Qatar's assertive foreign policy, prime minister and foreign minister Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim, a veteran politician who had been expected also to step down.
In a seven-minute speech aired on state television, the emir said it was time for a new generation to take over following his 18 years at the helm of the small, rich state.
"The time has come to open a new page in the journey of our nation that would have a new generation carry the responsibilities ... with their innovative ideas," said Sheikh Hamad, reading a prepared text behind his desk, where Qatar's deep red and white flag was perched nearby.
"I address you today to inform you that I will transfer power to Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad al-Thani. I am fully confident that he is qualified for the responsibility and is trustworthy."
State television later showed streams of well wishers greeting the outgoing emir and Sheikh Tamim at the royal court.
The emir did not specify when the change would take effect but a Qatari official had said the move, once announced, would take immediate effect.
POLLS POSTPONED
On the eve of the power transfer, Sheikh Hamad issued a decree extending the term of the advisory shura council, in effect indefinitely postponing elections that had been tentatively scheduled for the second half of the year.
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Paula Deen will no longer be flogging meat for Smithfield Foods.
The food company has ended its endorsement deal with Deen, following revelations that she had used racial slurs in the past.
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"Smithfield condemns the use of offensive and discriminatory language and behavior of any kind," a spokeswoman for Smithfield told TheWrap in a statement. "Therefore, we are terminating our partnership with Paula Deen. Smithfield is determined to be an ethical food industry leader and it is important that our values and those of our spokespeople are properly aligned."
On Friday, Food Network announced that it would not renew Deen's contract, after news broke that Deen admitted to using the N-word in the past.
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The admission stemmed from a deposition that Deen gave, stemming from a lawsuit filed by a former employee at Uncle Bubba's Seafood and Oyster House, who claims that Deen's brother, Earl W. "Bubba" Hiers created a sexually and racially hostile work environment, and that Deen failed to prevent it.
Deen's severance with Food Network followed multiple apology videos published online by Deen on Friday.
It remains to be seen how the remainder of Deen's empire will be affected by the fallout. On Friday, a spokesman for Caesars Entertainment -- the corporate home of Harrah's, which has several facilities with restaurants bearing Deen's name -- said that it was "deeply disturbed" by reports of Deen's use of racially offensive language, and will "monitor the situation" going forward.
"Paula Deen has acknowledged using a racial slur in the past," the spokesman said. "As a company with a longstanding commitment to diversity and inclusion, we are deeply disturbed by what we are reading in the press and strongly object to any use of racial epithets. We will continue to monitor the situation."
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SKEUOMORPHISM: A design feature copied from a similar feature in another device.
Skeuomorphism: it's not a word you used to hear. It's not even a word you find in the dictionary, unless your dictionary is the kind that needs an entire shelf to itself. But the tech press has been hailing Apple's skewering of skeuomorphism on the iPhone and iPad in previews of the upcoming iOS 7. What the heck is skeuomorphism and why is it so unpopular?
The term itself originates in archaeology and is over a hundred years old. When something originally made with one material or technique is remade with a new material or technique, necessary features of the old version are often copied across for decorative purposes in the new version. Those features are skeuomorphs: think of the fake stitching on plastic shoes to emulate leather work, the long skirt of a screw-top wine cap that resembles the foil of a cork-top and light bulbs shaped like candle flames.
Skeuomorphism often comes about when the new version is trying to emulate the cachet of the existing version - like the fake stitching on shoes. Sometimes it's a kind of design inertia as the move to newer techniques leaves designers scrambling to keep up, like the way electric kettles used to resemble their stove-top counterparts.
In computer software, skeuomorphism comes up when tasks that were previously done with physical objects are transplanted into the digital realm. The digital version is usually an analogy of the pre-digital way of doing things. This is how we came to talk about desktops, files and folders on computers, even though nobody would confuse a folder on a computer for a manila one.
If you carry the analogy too far you end up copying things that have no function in the digital version and skeuomorphs can result: numeric readouts that mimic the display of a digital watch, calculator apps that squeeze the abilities of a modern computer into the familiar grid of a real pocket calculator and media players sporting knobs with the appearance of brushed metal are just a few examples. Until now Apple's iOS software has been full of this kind of thing: games are organised on an imitation green baize table, notes are made on an imitation yellow paper pad, e-books selected from imitation wooden shelves, and so on. All that's gone with iOS 7.
A few contrarians have questioned whether the changes to iOS 7 eliminate skeuomorphism or just trade one set of skeuomorphs for another - there is imitation glass and metal in the new version, after all. But skeuomorphism was never really the problem anyway: it's just a high-falutin' word critics latched on to to express their disdain. People didn't like the cutesy real-world textures because they were out of step with current aesthetic tastes. Now the offending look is gone, and people are happy, regardless of whether those features - or their replacements - are skeuomorphic.
Skeuomorphism just clouded the issue. Now that the word has done its job maybe we can put it back in its box and let Apple dump it along with all the bolts of green baize, unwanted bookshelves and yellow note pads.
- Fairfax NZ News
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